Search PubMed⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

I Azuma

Publications and source records attributed to I Azuma.

At least 361 records · Page 20Linked to original sources
PubMed1975

Chemical and immunological studies on the cell walls of Propionibacterium acnes strain C7 and Corynebacterium parvum ATCC 11829.

The chemical and immunological properties of the cell walls prepared from the cells of anaerobic coryneforms, Propionibacterium acnes C7 and Corynebacterium parvum ATCC 11829, were partially investigated. The cell walls prepared from P. acnes C7 and C. parvum ATCC 11829 were composed of fatty acids, polysaccharides consisting glucose, galactose and mannose and mucopeptides consisting mainly of alanine, glutamic acid, alpha, epsilon-diaminopimelic acid, glycine, muramic acid and glucosamine. As the fatty acid constituents of the cell wall of P. acnes C7, iso-pentadecanoic acid and iso-heptadecanoic acid were detected as major components. Both cell walls prepared from P. acnes C7 and C. parvum ATCC 11829 showed potent adjuvant activity on the formation of circulating antibody and development of delayed type hypersensitivity in vivo and on the primary immune response to sheep erythrocytes in vitro, however, could not augment helper function of carrier-primed T cells and on the development of cell-mediated cytotoxicity to mastocytoma P815-X2 cells in C57BL/6J mice. It is also shown that the cell walls of P. acnes C7 and C. parvum ATCC 11829 act on mouse spleen cells as mitogen.

Adjuvants, Immunologic↗
PubMed1975

Immunotherapy of human malignant melanoma with oil-attached BCG cell-wall skeleton.

A first case of malignant melanoma treated with oil-attached BCG cell-wall skeleton (BCG-CWS) is reported. The patient, a 70-year-old farmer, with metastatic malignant melanoma was treated intralesionally with oil-attached BCG-CWS or was given intradermally with oil-attached BCG-CWS together with irradiated autologous and allogeneic tumor cells. Four months after the start of the immunotherapy with oil-attached BCG-CWS, Primary tumor and metastatic inguinal lymph nodes regressed markedly without any significant complications. Lymphocytosis in the peripheral blood was usually observed after injection of oil-attached BCG-CWS.

Adjuvants, Immunologic↗
PubMed1975

Effect of Nocardia and Mycobacterium cell-wall skeleton on autochthonous tumor grafts.

Cell-wall skeleton of Nocardia rubra and of Mycobacterium bovis BCG in the oil-attached form, when injected mixes with autografts of spontaneous mammary adenocarcinoma or of methylcholanthrene-induced sarcoma of mice, suppresses the growth of tumor autografts to a demonstrate extent. The BCG whole cell wall showed no effect. The local destruction of tumor autografts did not induce recognizable systemic immunity to the respective tumors. These findings are commended upon from immunological and chemical points of view.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1975

Effect of oil-attached BCG cell wall on the kinetics of lymphocytes in the tumor-draining node.

The lymphocyte distribution into the tumor-draining node was studied with AH-130 hepatoma cells and Donryu strain rats in relation to the adjuvant activity of the oil-attached BCG whole cell wall. The mixed inoculation of the oil-attached BCG cell wall with tumor cells resulted initially in further augmentation of increased distribution of 51Cr-labeled lymphocytes into the draining-node induced by inoculation of the tumor cells alone, and secondarily in the systemic stimulation of response of the lymph node lymphocytes to phytohemagglutinin. Suppression of the inoculated tumor growth and lymph node metastasis was finally observed. These results were discussed in connection with the therapeutic effect of BCG and its cell wall fraction.

Adjuvants, Immunologic↗
PubMed1975

Biologically active components from mycobacterial cell walls. III. Production of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in guinea-pigs.

The efficacy of various fractions of mycobacterial cell walls in producing experimental ahlergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) has been evaluated. BCG (Bacillus-Calmette-Buérin) cell walls were effective in producing EAE in all animals at dose levels as low as 40 mug. Study of subfractions of these cell walls revealed the following: (1) wax D was active, but required larger doses than BCG cell walls; (2) the chloroform-methanol-soluble (CMS) portion of wax D and P3 (a mycolic acid-trehalose ester contained therein) were inactive; (3) the chloroform-methanol-insoluble (CMI) portion of wax D was active; (4) exhaustively delipidated cell wass skeletons of BCG, Nocardia asteroides, Mycobacterium smegmatis, Corynebacterium diphtheriae and M. kansaii were active; (5) two water-soluble adjuvants prepared from mycobacteria were active. These results suggest that the mycobacterial structure responsible for EAE adjuvanticity is present in the organic solvent-insoluble cell wall skeleton framework. The activity of wax D may be due to the presence of cell-wall skeleton constituents which are found in varying quanity in most wax D preparations. Wax D components soluble in a solution of chloroform:methanol (diluted 2:1 v/v) do not produce EAE.

Adjuvants, Immunologic↗
PubMed1975

Adjuvant activity of mycobacterial fractions. I. Purification and in vivo adjuvant activity of cell wall skeletons of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, Nocardia asteroides 131 and Corynebacterium diphtheriae PW8.

The adjuvant activity of cell wall skeletons (mycolic acid-arabino-galactan-mucopeptide, CWS) prepared from the cells of mycobacteria, nocardia and corynebacteria was examined in vivo in mice and guinea pigs. The cell wall skeletons of Mycobacterium bovis BCG (BCG-CWS), Nocardia asteroides 131 and Corynebacterium diphtheriae PWC suspended in Freund's incomplete adjuvant (FIA) as water-in-oil emulsions showed potent adjuvant activity on the formation of circulating antibody and cell-mediated immunity to bovine serum albumin (BSA), sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) and sulfanylazo-bovine serum albumin (SA-BSA) in mice and guinea pigs. After acetylation or acid treatment, BCG-CWS retained its adjuvant activity, but the activity of BCG-CWS was destroyed completely by alkaline treatment. The cell wall constituents, arabinose-mycolate and arabino-galactan, prepared from BCG-CWS showed no adjuvant activity. It was also shown that BCG-CWS suspended in phosphate buffered saline or associated with oil droplets augmented cell-mediated cytotoxicity in which thymus-derived lymphocytes (T-cells) are effector cells.

Acids↗